
About Blackboard Learn
Easy, engaging, and accessible, Blackboard Learn has been redesigned in collaboration with educators and is better than ever before.
With hundreds of new SaaS based features, a network of over 200 partners, and deep, seamless integrations all designed to work reliably alongside your current technologies, Blackboard Learn is low-maintenance, modern, simple, and focused on improving learner outcomes.
See what else is new with Blackboard Learn at Anthology.com/learn.
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Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Markets
Australia, Canada, China, Germany, United Kingdom , India, Japan, United States and 3 others
Supported Languages
Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, Danish , Dutch, English, European Portuguese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and 19 others
Pricing starting from:
Not provided by vendor
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of Blackboard Learn: 75
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- Industry: Food Production
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Blackboard LMS for Business Review
Reviewed on 19/5/2020
My overall experience with Blackboard LMS Business is always amazing! It has helped and improved my...
My overall experience with Blackboard LMS Business is always amazing! It has helped and improved my grade so much because it lets me know ahead of time when assignments are due, which has helped be more organized as well. I love this software so much and I suggest everyone to use this!
Pros
A feature that I love the most about this software is it allows teachers to upload assignments online to eliminate the use of paper. This software is such an easy to use software and really simple to change any settings for the liking of your choice. What I also love about this is that it is a good platform to take tests and quizzes, which is super amazing because it is not confusing at all. I absolutely love this and it has helped be more organized!
Cons
A feature that I would like to see in the future is the mobile app, it could use a little improvement and it is a bit slow, but the desktop version is amazing so it does not really bother me because I usually check and do everything through my desktop. I still absolutely love this software.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Blackboard as a home base for college students
Reviewed on 24/2/2022
I had a fairly pleasant experience with blackboard, i was able to do much of the tasks I expect to...
I had a fairly pleasant experience with blackboard, i was able to do much of the tasks I expect to be able to do on an LMS. I just wish that the design interface would be more simple and modern. Also more functionalities and integrations would be nice. Eg: opening a pdf file on blackboard directly instead of a redirection to a page or a pop up
Pros
I like that it is fairly easy to use. Users don’t require extensive training to be able to use the product, and I like that as a student I can upload assignments and get learning modules from the same place, so it is convenient.
Cons
I think the user interface design is a bit outdated. It is less appealing than other LMS such as canvas learn. I also hear a lot of my professors complain about how complicated it is on their side to navigate blackboard due to the repetitiveness and redundancy of blackboard.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 5,001-10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
Blackboard - Really clunky!
Reviewed on 5/3/2020
At our institution Bb Learn instructions sometimes don't match the local implementation.
At our institution Bb Learn instructions sometimes don't match the local implementation.
Pros
What I like most about the software is what is is *supposed* to do: serve as a total course management system.
Cons
Everything about Blackboard is clunky — at least as it is set up in our university. Operations that should be drag and drop require multiple clicks. Nearly every function in Blackboard is present in other generic software and works more efficiently. In addition, Blackboard (as set up in our school) forces templates onto teachers, Redoing the templates into usable form takes lots of clicks.
Here are two examples of the most egregious design errors.
1. The Bb gradebook. It vaguely resembles like Excel or Google sheets in how functions. But unlike spreadsheets where one can easily duplicate columns and reassign formulas, the Gradebook requires separate multiple-menu-click operations for every column creation, every grade entry and every grade change. We find little flexibility in creating grading formulas, compared to off-the-shelf spreadsheet programs. And the import-export functions of Bb gradesheets to generic spreadsheets is so clunky that it is unusable.
2. Course duplication. Bb allows the teacher to duplicate a course. Except it doesn't really work. If you try and duplicate the course you taught in the year 2020 for use in 2021, you find that Blackboard will duplicate the general template for all university courses without importing all of the eaacher's innovations.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
BLACKBOARD LEARN – you don’t know how good something is until it’s gone!
Reviewed on 17/11/2022
Blackboard Learn (BBL) was much better than we knew! You don’t always have control over what tools...
Blackboard Learn (BBL) was much better than we knew! You don’t always have control over what tools or LMS you have to use, but if you (or someone else) think that you’d prefer a different LMS - BE CAREFUL what you wish for! I loved the Grade Book’s versatility and ability to easily download it for offline management when needed. Also, when we still had BBL (yes, ‘they’ have switched us to a different LMS) I used it for online classes and as an e-Companion to onsite classes. Loading and transferring content and tests was pretty easy. I MISS BBL!
Pros
I found that Blackboard Learn is much easier to use than other online platforms used in higher education. Being able to easily add materials and instructional documents to an online course is critical especially when a department adopts a new edition of a textbook. The quiz/test builder within Blackboard Learn is also quite user friendly and being able to export exams from a previous course and import to a future course is a real time saver!
Cons
The discussion board when entering grades can sometimes be a little confusing, trying to determine if the student is replying to a classmate’s post – especially if the student has not included the classmate’s name in their reply, but that’s really more due to a student not following instructions and not the program.

- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Your new classroom (digital)
Reviewed on 26/5/2022
The experience that Blackboard gives you is satisfactory since several other platforms, its...
The experience that Blackboard gives you is satisfactory since several other platforms, its management system between courses, and the power to upload files or open documents that teachers upload to their respective courses, are not as easy to do as in blackboard, since the software is very friendly for students like us and makes it not cost us work in performing all its functions that it gives us.
Pros
Being still a student, I love the ease with which I can move within the interface and change courses because if you have several subjects, you can easily locate them and see the content very easily. Inside the software, you can see practically everything as if it were a classroom since you can hold virtual meetings, see your content/tasks to do, see your final grades, take your final exams, etc. It is a platform that stands out for its excellence in education since the page rarely crashes or presents some difficulties.
Cons
It may be difficult at first to navigate through the different menus/pages/courses because the platform does not give us that simply look the first time we see it, as unlike its competitors in the market, this one has a slightly less friendly view. But it is rescued if for example our school/university gives us within Blackboard a small tutorial on the essentials you should know about this software.
But honestly, I do not see many cons to Blackboard because it is a platform that gives us what we are looking for and that is why it is one of the top e-learning software.
Blackboard Learn FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Blackboard Learn.Q. What type of pricing plans does Blackboard Learn offer?
Blackboard Learn offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from:
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Contact Anthology for more pricing details.
Q. Who are the typical users of Blackboard Learn?
Blackboard Learn has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001-5,000
Q. What languages does Blackboard Learn support?
Blackboard Learn supports the following languages:
Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, European Portuguese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
Q. Does Blackboard Learn support mobile devices?
Blackboard Learn supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Blackboard Learn integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Blackboard Learn has
Q. What level of support does Blackboard Learn offer?
Blackboard Learn offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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